Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 260M - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTX 260M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Broadway-XT
N10E-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
March 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
700 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
112
Floating-point performance
1,120.0 gflops
308 gflops
Gigaflops
-
462
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
112
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.00
31 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
61 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0